Native Americans âleft out in the coldâ under Trump press Biden for action
(Amr Alfiky | The New York Times) Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) speaks to reporters in Wilmington, Del., on Dec. 19, 2020 as President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris look on. Haaland is Biden s choice to lead the Interior Department and is the first Native American to be chosen as a cabinet secretary.
By Mark Walker | The New York Times
  | Feb. 19, 2021, 5:01 p.m.
Washington ⢠When President Joe Biden introduced Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico as his pick for interior secretary, making her the first Native American to be selected for a Cabinet position, he acknowledged the countryâs long history of failing the landâs first citizens.
Gerald Torres, professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment, weighs in on the nomination of New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland to be the next Department of the Interior Secretary.
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SALT LAKE CITY Republican Congressman John Curtis shared warm messages of unity and a call to root out “political extremism” while making the rounds in meetings with lawmakers on Utah’s Capitol Hill Tuesday.
“I look for every opportunity to call it out when I see it,” Curtis said of “political extremism” to the House Democratic Caucus. “It’s something that has gripped us as a country.”
The former Provo mayor said if the U.S. is going to heal its political divides, it has to start with the individual, so he said he’s resolved to setting that example.